Feedback Wanted: High Definition Render Pipeline

Please add Occlusion Probes in standart HDRP, this is just crucial improvement of graphics!

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Hey can someone point me in the direction on how to use the vertex animation and the Shader Wind so I can set up some flags and banners that move in the wind?

 

What happened with 5.3.1 isn't it out already? i can't see it in PackMan

 

Hmm that's mean i need to edit also the dependancies to specific version. can you show me the correct version for them? i know hdrp are 5.3.1, but PPv3 and shader graph what are the version for them?
edit : HDRP are "5.3.1 - Preview" ?

 

You just need to change HDRPs package link to

"com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition": "5.3.1-preview"

It will also import Shader Graph and PPV3 is built into HDRP (otherwise older versions will automatically import PPV2)

Also if you are using the 2019.2 alpha the package shows in the Package Manager, only in 2019.1 it doesn't show.

 

Ah okay i found them, oh wow PPV3 are bit confusing. I thought the setup are the same as PPV2.
Also the exposure Physical Camera Based are inverted isn't? lower shutter speed should brighter exposure, but it's the opposite here.

 

Major version of HDRP is increased for major Unity versions.

So, for example:

4.x = Unity 2018.3
5.x = Unity 2019.1
6.x = Unity 2019.2

Packages include a package.json file which tells Unity what dependencies the package has, and what minimum version of Unity is required. So things like the package manager will only offer you versions for that major version of Unity.

 

Yea, that's something I noticed as well. There's also the Pipeline Wizzard that sets up all the defaults for creating a new empty scene with Postprocessing and Scene Settings.
It's Under Window -> Analysis -> Render Pipeline Wizzard then choose "Fix All" If you want all default settings for everything it's best to delete your old settings and let that window create all the defaults then you can modify the settings after. (This will default the directional light to use 100k lux, adjust Skybox exposure, as well as post-processing exposure to be more physically based)

 

hdrp 5.3.1 is giving me a lot of errors with unity 2019.1.0b3 by default

 

Which ones?

 

here is an error i am getting on opening blank project with hdrp
ArgumentException: RenderTextureDesc graphicsFormat must be a supported GraphicsFormat. R8_SRGB is not supported.
Parameter name: desc.graphicsFormat
UnityEngine.RenderTexture.ValidateRenderTextureDesc (UnityEngine.RenderTextureDescriptor desc) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/Graphics/Texture.cs:211)

i have gtx 1050 gpu in my laptop

 

Add CommandBuffers for Lights

 

Hey. Im using jdpr 4.9.0 and want to use vertex animation for some flag meshes. However Im no longer able to do so. Even ading the keyword manually seems to do nothing. Also how do we set up the object so that only parts of it move.

 

Say @Remy_Unity any plan to add GTAO into the PPV3 Ambient Occlusion mode? i think there's an open source GTAO for unity in github that works for great also it also generate Bent Normal buffer that can be used for AO and specular occlusion.

 

Hi, I've tested adding multiple shader passes in subshader of HDRP. I discover that Unity will not render same LightMode Tags. For example, if I add 10 shader passes with the same Tags { "LightMode"="Forward" } Unity will render only the first pass. The remaining 9 passes will be ignored. Is this the intended behavior? If it is then does it mean that it's not possible to create fur shader using this approach http://www.shaderslab.com/demo-60---fur-shader.html in HDRP?

 

I want to ask if volumertic fog will be support light probes?

 

Huh lightprobe and volumetric fog? what do you mean

 

I believe the glowing effect in volumetric fog via injecting probes, it was shown at Unite. I'd like that too, as a real light may be expensive.

 

Not sure if this should go here or somewhere as a more generic Unity issue/suggestion...

Since forever, Geometry shaders haven't had

lineadj

and

triangleagj

inputs fully filled in. Only the first 3 points are filled and the rest are essentially null, and thus useless. With the push for more advanced graphics features, will this eventually be setup to be filled in finally? As of 2019.1 it still doesn't seem to be. It would be nice to have a fully complete geometry shader pipeline.

 

Exactly!

 

You have a link for this? I tried to search for it but unfortunately GTAO is used for grand theft auto: online so only got results filled with these when I tried to search for it. I wasn't aware there's any other than Amplify Occlusion 2 that does this for Unity.

 

This is a error from PP 2.1.2. It should be fixed in 2.1.3 but you shouldn't use 5.2.3 or PPv2 on 2019.1 at this point at all, use 5.3.1 or 5.4.0 instead (these do not show in package manager atm).

 

"Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion" is what it's called.

Unity-Ground-Truth-Ambient-Occlusion by MaxwellGengYF - GitHub

[Feature Request] GTAO - Ground Truth Ambient Occlussion

 

Yep this one @rizu, pretty sure it doesn't have anything with Grand Theft Auto

 

I second the vertex normal request.

 

Hi guys! Trying HDRP for the first time on a prototype.
Having some trouble with volumetric lights. As you can see on the screenshot, on editor everything is fine, but on game screen it's off place, like if its calculated on another resolution. When I select the reprojection, then it's a mess, with "zoom" like copies appearing of every light.
Any insights, please???
I'm on 2018.3.5 and 4.9 preview.
Thanks!

 

HDRP is still experimental. This can happen.

 

Did you set the "high quality" option on "volumetrics", inside the HDRenderPipeline asset? It helps with resolution.

 

Yes, it only changes the noise resolution on volumetrics. I tried every single checkmark on HDRP settings, on volume, on post processing, tried Vulkan, DX12, everything. Nothing changes.

 

HDRP isn't working on DX11 on UWP Xbox. It gives the error:

Platform Windows 10 64 bit with device Direct3D11 is not supported, no rendering will occur.

It works fine on DX12 though, which is preferable for this specific platform anyway. But SRP batcher only works with DX11. SRP batcher gives me a big fps boost on LWRP on Xbox, so I wouldn't like to go without it on HDRP. Is there any word on DX12 support for SRP batcher?

 

SSR already in HDRP since long time ago

 

How can I enable it in the scene?

 

By Activating the SSR checkbox in HDRP settings and scene settings

 

Is there a way to install 6.x version? Currently package manager complains about missing com.unity.ugui v1.0.0

 

you can just put a dummy package into your projects packages folder and put package.json for ugui inside it.

 

It worked, though it seems it references code missing from 2019.2.a4 (The type or namespace name 'EditorCameraUtils' does not exist in the namespace 'UnityEditor.Rendering')

 

This is most likely because it doesn't have that namespace implemented yet. I think current 2019.1 beta has it(?) so next 2019.2 alpha could have it too. For the time being, I've just reverted the commit that introduces that (https://github.com/Unity-Technologi...mmit/eb42bf61d5434a122dcc9d3b37cb9898e86ea672). Worth noting that this isn't all that uncommon when using wip branches. Usually the next beta/alpha will bring the engine side support for some new api so one can use these wip branches again.

 

Well, this is going to stall testing latest 6.x.x a bit: https://forum.unity.com/threads/2019-2-0a5-a6-will-be-skipped.631255/

As a side note, SSR is not working on 5.5.0 HDRP or 6.3.0 HDRP if you use forward-only. That is, unless I'm missing some additional option that needs to be enabled now in forward-only (SSR does work on deferred-only).

Edit-> SSR breaking on forward-only is caused by this PR: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/pull/2908.

Edit 2-> Fix now in master, thank you

 

Sorry didn't get notification that you replied @SebLagarde .
Yes I'm mostly talking about masking. It is essentiel really. Some decals you would want to project on Environment and not Characters or the other way around.
I don't know if it's better to flag the object or the material.
But it's a must need. If you don't have that, decal will only be used for environement.
Vfx Artists will be very sad.

Also their Mesh Decals seems pretty cool too. Or maybe having decal support SVG or SDF.

 

Hello, Unity graphics team!
Are you planning to update "Experimental/Look dev" tool, for compatibility with HDRP?
Very useful tool, and we really missed for it.

Maybe, it is possible to rewrite some code by my own - but how?
Thanks a lot!

 

Tried OcclusionProbes with an HDRP and BuiltIn backport and i am not a fan of it anymore. Too much fakery.

The screenshots provided are probably not so representative and are more R aytracing T rees X treme marketing level.)

Especially the one in the middle.

Found 2 alternatives.

Simple one but also fakery.
MultiResAO method gets pretty close to last shot.
https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/multiresaocc/multiresaocc.htm


My favourite , most easy and most accurate.

Full Lightmapping to Vertex with Bakery.

https://twitter.com/guycalledfrank/status/1020806864655831041?s=20

This one works with Unity BuiltIn Pipeline Bakery Standard Shader.

Would be great if Shadergraph would allow to simply pipe the vertex lightmap values from bakery to the HDRP Lit Shader.

Would also greatly level up Fontainebleau.)
Tested it on some assets backported to BuiltIn.

 

Unity is sort of not into supporting this...I was furious about this as this was advertised as if it is available out of the box...but not...which is another issue that I don't want to get into again...

Simply put, Unity shouldn't false advertise...regardless of their intent, it did mislead a lot of people.

On a side note, I wish there were shadow casters...no light but just shadows, then occulusion probes won't be needed in many use cases.

 

While not official, I got Occlusion Probes running from custom Package Manager package that will work on stock HDRP in the near future (still waiting for shader graph PR to get merged into future HDRP release before I send it to github), more about it here.

 

wait, rizu do you work for Unity? How did you get it up in the package manager?

BTW, really appreciate the work

 

I work for my own company

You can make custom/local packages for PM just fine. You can even put direct github links in your manifest (as long as the git branches you link holding have been authored for this pacage format) and it'll grab them and show in Package Manager. I do custom packages for things I use a lot and are separated from actual projects code (they help me keep projects Assets folder clean and also make reusable things easier to share/reuse between projects).

What I do locally is that I usually place the custom package in subfolder located in projects Packages folder while I develop it. Any local packages you put there get automatically picked up by the package manager and you don't even add them manually to the manifest then. You can still make the file refs in manifest too (PM UI also got that + button on the corner for this) if you want to use local package from some other folder.